Fine Arts Festival to celebrate districtwide student achievement, feature performances from LHS musicians, actors
Senior Sophia Wood has an art piece in the show titled ‘Reintroduction’.
“For this project we were doing a triptych, it’s basically one piece separated into three. I thought it would be really cool to do Koi fish swimming through the drawing,” she said. “This was all pen and the background was alcohol markers.”
This art piece took Wood a little over a month to make as the first project of the 2nd Semester for Drawing Advanced. She was inspired by nature, more specifically, Koi fish.
“I always liked drawing Koi fish, I think they just have a lot of movement and just flow really well. I knew I wanted to do something with nature, so I just settled on a fish,” she said.
Woods has involved herself in art at LHS since her freshman year. Although she doesn’t want to continue it professionally, she still wants to continue art as a hobby.
While some interests may be simply a hobby, junior Luke Hinton is using the art show as a way to put his name out there as an artist.
“I really like to put my name out there more and have people see my work,” he said.
With his passion being ceramics, one of Hinton’s clay pieces that will be displayed on the art show is called the ‘Wounded Soldier’.
“This is supposed to represent a Roman soldier found in the Colosseum. They had to fight a lot of animals, soldiers, and they killed a lot of people and I thought that was very cool,” he said. “I was inspired by a lot of Roman sculptures and Roman Greek sculptures.”
Hinton has been participating in art shows since freshman year and believes his work has improved a lot since then. Last year, Hinton made around $500 dollars just by selling his pieces.
This year however, he is not planning on selling any pieces as he wants to keep them for other occasions.
“I’m actually saving up a lot of my work for the Saint Louis Art Fair,” he said.
Hinton said he wants to go to a ceramics school and has already gotten scholarships to some of them.
“I got some really good scholarships for two of the best ceramic schools in the country: Alfred University in New York and Kansas City Art Institute,” he said.
Hinton would love to turn his passion into a profession.
“It’d be nice to have my own studio that’s welcoming everybody,” he said.
For now, he is planning on attending art shows in the future, as well as showing his art to other people.
“I’ve always had a love for art since I was a kid, but when I took ceramics as a freshman, I fell in love with it,” he said.
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